invisibly

adverb

as in imperceptibly

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Recent Examples of invisibly What can stranded shoes, toys, or fragments of plastic tell us that their counterparts still moving invisibly through global trade cannot? — Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026 All the tempestuous hormones and emotions and urges invisibly flashing across their own bodies like a rippling second skin. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 And the gap between what AI promises and what the underlying data can support keeps widening, invisibly. — Matt Waxman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 Yet somewhere, invisibly, the horizon had contracted. — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 An outbreak that spreads invisibly is far harder to contain because contact tracing is always one step behind. — Klinger Soares Faico Filho, The Conversation, 18 May 2026 However, viral content does not move around the Internet involuntarily; a viral meme cannot be passed along invisibly with someone’s sneeze, for example. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026 That’s the moment where so many stories end quietly, invisibly. — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2026 What happens inside hyphae is invisibly small. — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invisibly
  1. imperceptibly
  2. minutely
  3. microscopically
  4. barely
  5. insignificantly
  6. minimally
  7. infinitesimally
Adverb
  • The rival closed her eyes, shivered, nodded almost imperceptibly.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • The nanobubbler system — essentially imperceptibly small bubbles meant to oxygenate the water and choke off algae growth — had never been tested at this scale on a public monument before deployment.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Definition of imperceptibly
Adverb
  • The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Its standout feature is its hyper-deformable wheels, minutely structured from silicone, composite, and stainless steel, which create a soft, enlarged contact surface with the terrain.
    — Tim Barber, Wired News, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of minutely
Adverb
  • The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
    — Guy German, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Definition of microscopically
Adverb
  • Half the time, they’ve barely been touched; give them a yellow card.
    — The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Imagine burning down your life's work just to gain an insider edge against a team that barely knows how to play fundamental baseball.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of barely
Adverb
  • While these might seem insignificantly small compared to the average density, gravitation causes the overdense regions to grow and attract matter into them over time, while the underdense regions similarly give up their matter to their more dense surroundings.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
Definition of insignificantly
Adverb
  • Those looking for a nice juice for cocktails will appreciate this minimally sweet option found in the refrigerator section.
    — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 20 July 2026
  • Today, anyone can put together a minimally viable piece of content.
    — Andrey Insarov, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of minimally
Adverb
  • The company used this speed advantage (and, later, similar ones) to profit from infinitesimally brief pricing differences between exchanges, all while fulfilling clients’ orders to buy and sell on those exchanges.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise.
    — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Definition of infinitesimally

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